DevOps Transition & Shift-Left/Right to increase confidence

If either your company finished the first wave of shift-left/right or you are already using a DevOps approach but your testing still does not fit as well as your vendor told you. Your confidence did not increase or even decreased?

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What is Shift-Left

Imagine your development process like this (simplified):  Develop (Developers) -> Test (Testers) -> Operate (Administrators). Shift-Left means nothing else than what small companies do since years, the testing already happens during development and operational feasibility is also checked while still in development or testing.

How does it affect testing?

Testing starts earlier. While developers are used to unit testing, the keyword is test driven development (TDD), they are not used for functional, integration, end-to-end or stability tests. Unit-tests are used as small pieces of code that test other small pieces of code.

Two major changes affect testing

Testers must act as Quality Coaches as well.
They teach developers what real testing means

Developers understand how to
implement functional integration, etc. tests

What is Shift-Right

As the name implies you try to bring in people from the right side of the process to process phases on the left side. Develop (Developers) -> Test (Testers) -> Operate (Administrators) -> Use (Customers).

Shift-Right is nothing else what most companies do, if they do not yet have the benefits of automated testing or do not have dedicated testing resources. Key users are brought in, to test. They replace the testers. Therefore, the process changes like this: Develop (Developers) -> Test (Customers) -> Operate (Administrators) -> Use (Customers).

In comparison to Shift-Left, Shift-Right is mostly useful for internal rollouts or testing with small customers groups, because you need to have users that are so-called subject matter experts.

What is the DevOps transition

DevOps is the result of what we defined for Shift-Left and Shift-Right specifically for developers and administrators. The development group knows about operations and vice-versa. This makes sure that the handover from R&D to Operation is flawless.

Because of a flawless handover it can happen more often which increases our frequency of releases. That is exactly what everybody talks about when they talk about “agile”.

Why your current tools do not support Shift-Left

Because they are full-blown standalone products. No developer has ever used them, nor do they look appealing to developers. They do not support the typical workflow of a developer.

How to measure if a tool supports Shift-Left

A tool that supports Shift-Left seamlessly integrates into the development IDE, supports all source control and continuous integration systems.

The test is simple: Give your developer a test tool and ask them if they want to work with it. If the answer is “perhaps” you have a potential candidate if the answer is “yes, yes, yes” you have a real Shift-Left supporting test tool. Everything else is marketing.

Why your current tools do not support Shift-Right

Because they are full-blown standalone products. No business user has ever used them, nor do they look familiar to other tools -mostly web pages these days- that business users run daily.

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Benefits through TestResults.io

TestResults.io is not a standalone product. It is complete test automation platform which consist of two parts:
The Portal and the Designer

The Portal provides key-users or testers a place to defined and track the test cases.
The Designer provides developer or automation engineers a fully integrated solution to design automated test cases in the most used IDE world-wide.
This means, with TestResults.io you either shift to the left, or shift to the right or shift left and right simultaneously.
This brings to higher satisfaction for your key users and testers as well as it increased motivation for your developers and automation engineers.

Key Facts & Benefits:

  • Reduce costs thanks to our CI/CD friendly licensing model
  • Save time with pre-defined integrations (via Zapier)
  • Use the same tools for development and testing

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TestResults.io uses operating system or device provided native functionalities like VNC, RDP, ADB, HDMI, … to connect to the test system. No need to install any runner means no need to modify your test environment.

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No wait() code,
No sleep() code

TestResults.io is not based on timings. We observe the system under test 1:1 like a human would and continue with an operation once the previous operation is finished. No need for Sleep(5).

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